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4 Fungi’s Regenerative is an offshoot of Better Fresh Farms, a sustainable indoor food grower and the anchor company at Georgia Grown Innovation Center in Metter. They developed a circular economy approach to growing mushrooms with regionally sourced agricultural waste, and reconstituting their byproducts into soil amendments through an on-site partnership with COR Compost of Savannah. The Metter-based facility will create almost 50 new jobs and $27 million in investment in Candler County.

One man is dead, after a shooting in Bulloch County Monday night.

The Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport and Georgia Southern Sports Properties are giving away two tickets to the Georgia Southern versus Texas State game, along with round-trip airfare and a hotel stay. The deadline to enter is September 25.

Local chapters of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution celebrate Constitution Week each year from September 17-23. Members of the Archibald Bulloch Chapter joined Mayor Jonathan McCollar at City Hall to sign a Constitution Week proclamation.

The game time will move to 7 p.m. for the conference opener at Allen E. Paulson Stadium.

Commissioners honored retiring Chief Magistrate Judge June Braswell and presented a proclamation to DAR for Constitution Week at their bi-monthly meeting on Tuesday. Read the story for the full report.

This year's festival will feature a parade, food, vendors, and a street dance.

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A family is displaced after a house fire in Bulloch County on Monday night.

The rain held off for Friday night's 15th annual Taste of Downtown. Attendees visited shops and enjoyed the musical stylings of The Ripleys while sampling local delicacies from wings to lattes to cheesecake.